The most beautiful things in the creating of the child are their “mistakes.” The more a child’s work is full of these individual mistakes the more wonderful it is. And the more a teacher removes them from the child’s work the duller, more desolate and impersonal it becomes. – Franz Cizek
...unless society recognises that its responsibility extends far beyond the provision of free schooling, the money spent on state education is largely wasted. School becomes just another way of institutionalising the poor. – Eva Figes
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. – Bertrand Russell
Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition with other groups. It is this motive, in the main, which determines the subjects taught, the knowledge offered and the knowledge withheld, and also decides what mental habits the pupils are expected to acquire. Hardly anything is done to foster the inward growth of mind and spirit; in fact, those who have had the most education are very often atrophied in their mental and spiritual life. – Bertrand Russell
A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body. – John Stuart Mill
The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens. – H. L. Mencken
To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees. – Munshi Premchand
You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over. – Richard Branson
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. – Benjamin Franklin
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and it's knowing how to use the information you get. – William Feather
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way. – Noam Chomsky
Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education -- if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon -- all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness. – Harriet Beecher Stowe
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. – Isaac Asimov
No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back. – John Holt
The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer. –Alice Wellington Rollins
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. – William A. Ward
The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, The children are now working as if I did not exist. – Maria Montessori
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. – Thomas Carruthers
Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach. – Albert Einstein
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is a vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. – Carl Jung
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a days work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. – Jacques Barzun
A teacher affects eternity; no one can tell where her influence stops. – Henry Adams
Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher. – Japanese Proverb
Nine tenths of education is encouragement. – Anatole France
Correction does much, but encouragement does more. – Goethe
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of becoming. – Goethe
The kids in our classroom are infinitely more significant than the subject matter we teach. – Meladee McCarty
If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important. – Barbara Colorose
Schooling is what happens inside the walls of the school, some of which is educational. Education happens everywhere, and it happens from the moment a child is born--and some people say before--until a person dies. – Sara Lawrence Lightfoot
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. – Mahatma Gandhi
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